inspiration

Complexify.
Isn’t that a lovely-sounding word?
Its meaning, to add complexity, is even better. I know you’re thinking, Wait a minute, isn’t it all supposed to be about simplifying? Isn’t that what every single article is about? What…

A year is a solid chunk of time for learning new things.
This is what I know after 2017 . . .
1. If your niece, who is like a little sister to you, asks you to officiate at her wedding, always say yes. And then be honest and heartfelt in what you say…

I haven’t yet read Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. However, I am reading its parody, Sarah Knight’s The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don’t Have With People You Don’t Like Doing…

I’ve always been kind of an outlier. Not demographically or in a way that is apparent to others. After all, I’m a middle-aged, middle-income, brown-haired, blue-eyed white girl, who lives in a quiet suburban neighborhood in Ohio and follows a…

Do you ever feel like life is not happening on time?
I do.
It manifests as the fear of wasting time—not minutes in the day as much as decades.
It includes saying things like, “It’s too late for me to do this,” or “This should have happened…